Hi everyone, I recently took a job working on a very large project that uses the Flash 8 IDE for building. The project is structured hierarchically, with each FLA associated with one view class.
Very soon after starting, I was very frustrated by build times (40 minutes+), so I convinced the boss to let me write a build tool that determines dependencies, then factors out common code. Build time is vastly improved, as views that are deeper in the hierarchy typically compile against intrinsics rather than full classes (as determined by the tool). SWF sizes are also much smaller, without having to mess around with exclude.xml. I wrote in SWF invalidation, so that individual FLAs are only recompiled if the modified time stamp on the FLA, or any of the FLA's dependent ActionScript files, is greater than the SWF's (just like make). The tool can be run via the command-line or an Apache Ant task. Is anyone out there writing applications structured this way? Would they have interest in the tool (written in Java)? Scott
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